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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the key-stone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done, the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.
— Coleridge
Life
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He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small: For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
— Coleridge
Wisdom
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
— Coleridge
Life
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Religion passes out of the ken of reason only where the eye of reason has reached its own horizon; faith is then but its continuation, even as the day softens away into the sweet twilight; and twilight, hushed and breathless, steals into the darkness.
— Coleridge
Wisdom